Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day: True Love Lasts Forever

On Tom’s first Valentine’s without his wife Heather he relives the day they met fifty years ago and fell in love.

10 Minute Drama – 2M, 2W, single setting

Production Still. Les Asmussen as Old Tom, Jayden Muir as Heather, Abbie Gallagher as Karen, and Murray John Curtis as Young Tom in The Short+Sweet Sydney Production of Valentine's Day By James Hutchison. Directed by Sarah Purdue. Photograph by  Chris Lundie
Les Asmussen as Old Tom, Jayden Muir as Heather, Abbie Gallagher as Karen, and Murray John Curtis as Young Tom in The Short+Sweet Sydney Production of Valentine’s Day By James Hutchison. Directed by Sarah Purdue. Photograph by Chris Lundie

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Tom – an old man
Karen – his granddaughter
Heather – a young woman
Tom – a young man

SETTING

Tom’s home.

TIME

Valentine’s Day

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

2018 – Newmarket National 10 Minute Play Festival in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
2018 – Short+Sweet Sydney – Top 80 – Sydney, Australia
2018 – Short+Sweet Sydney – selected for Crew Cut Finals – Sydney Australia
2017 Quarter Finalist Lakeshore Players 13th Annual Ten Minute Play Contest – White Bear Lake, Minnesota, USA
2017 Finalist Minnesota Shorts Play Festival – Mankato, Minnesota, USA
2017 Short Listed for Short+Sweet Theatre Kolkata – Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2017 Short Listed for Short+Sweet Hollywood – Hollywood, California, USA

NOTABLE PRODUCTIONS

2018 – Newmarket National 10 Minute Play Festival in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Directed by Dale Sheldrake – Cast: Dan Karpenchuk as Old Tom, Tiffany Deobald as Heather, Kyra Van Den Enden as Karen, and Ilya Iyashyk as Young Tom.

2018 – Short+Sweet Sydney – Top 80 & Crew Cut Finals – Sydney, Australia Directed by Sarah Purdue Cast: Les Asmussen as Old Tom, Jayden Muir as Heather, Abbie Gallagher as Karen, and Murray John Curtis as Young Tom.